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On Intelligence
- De: Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
- Narrado por: Jeff Hawkins, Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,325
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,100
Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Epiphany
- De James en 03-14-05
- On Intelligence
- De: Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
- Narrado por: Jeff Hawkins, Stefan Rudnicki
Good content, but . . .
Revisado: 08-11-06
The theories and data in the book are truly fascinating, but the author’s style and the narration detract from the content.
The main theme contrasts how our minds work with the way computers work. The writer's hypothesis is that no one will ever build an "intelligent" computer using the existing "computational" design structure of computers, even as technology progresses to produce increased computational speed and memory capacity (which, according to the author, have been the traditional, but incorrect, explanations for "artificial intelligence’s" failure to replicate the “true intelligence” of the human mind). The book contains many eye opening examples of things no computer has ever accomplished, but we accomplish easily and quickly with our minds – and others that human minds accomplish in a fraction of a second, but the biggest and fastest computers built to date take hours to "compute" – and it explains why.
But the author’s interesting message suffers from his lack of focus in choosing an audience and writing for that audience. Instead, the book oscillates (in an almost schizophrenic way) between excessive scientific minutia (which seems to have been directed at convincing the scientific community of his credentials, and the validity of his theories); and "talking down" to the average reader (so they'll "get it"). And unfortunately, the style problem is compounded by the narrator’s tone of voice, which makes the writer sound arrogant and condescending. Other authors have proven that scientific data can be presented in an interesting and intelligible way, even to lay audiences. (One obvious example is the light hearted and entertaining style of Bill Bryson in A Short History of Almost Everything.)
In short, while the content of the book is clearly fascinating, I think most readers would enjoy it more if they waited for an Audible abridged version, with (hopefully) a better narrator.
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Who's Your Caddy
- Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf
- De: Rick Reilly
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Who knows a golfer best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So, sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players and their games by caddying, even though he had absolutely no idea how to do it. Amazingly, some of the best golfers in the world - including Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Tom Lehman, John Daly, Casey Martin, and Jill McGill - agreed to let Reilly carry their bags at actual PGA and LPGA Tour events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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HILLARIOUS!!
- De Michael en 07-11-03
- Who's Your Caddy
- Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf
- De: Rick Reilly
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Priceless, but unfortunately X-rated
Revisado: 02-02-05
Side splittingly funny, with wonderfully entertaining caricatures of the players,the other caddies, and himself. The only drawback is that I wish I could give it to my 16 year old golfing-daughter to read, but it is unfortunately X-rated -- not detractingly vulgar as an adult read, but clearly not for kids.
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 15,325
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,582
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12,477
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who needs a print edition when King reads King?
- De Cather en 11-18-05
- On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
Fabulous
Revisado: 08-17-04
Not just for aspiring authors, this is a book you should read simply because it's a great book: well written, entertaining and thought provoking. If you ever intend to write anything -- even a letter to your mother -- it will help you do it better. But even if you are only a reader, and never intend to write a word for any reason for the rest of your life, you'll love it for the peek you'll get at the windmills inside a great author's mind.
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